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What is Blood Levels?

When taking certain medications, such as lithium, concentrations in the blood must be measured regularly.

Reported Purpose & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Purpose # of patients
# of patients with evaluations Efficacy
Major
Moderate
Slight
None
Can’t tell
Other 17 3 Efficacy_major
General health 15 4 Efficacy_major Efficacy_slight Efficacy_cant_tell
Increase effect of another treatment 5 2 Efficacy_major Efficacy_slight
Diabetes Type 2 4 1 Efficacy_major
Hypothyroidism 4 0
Diagnostic assessment 2 0

See all 48 patients currently having Blood Levels

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Reported Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
 0
Moderate
 1
Mild
 3
None
 6

Commonly reported side effects, conditions, and hospitalizations associated with Blood Levels

Bruising 2
small veins 2
take blood on back of hands 2
Flu like symptoms 1
rolling veins 1

Reported Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Adherence of Blood Levels

Always
 9 90%
Usually
 0 0%
Sometimes
 1 10%
Never
 0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Burden of Blood Levels

Very
 0 0%
Somewhat
 4 40%
A little
 2 20%
Not at all
 4 40%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

Cost of Blood Levels

$200+
 1 13%
$100-199
 1 13%
$50-99
 0 0%
$25-49
 1 13%
< $25
 5 63%

Report created on May 26, 2012.